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Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerful and compelling illustrations of how, across a wide range of cultures, processes of gender transformation are shaped within, and ultimately constrained by, social and political context. From medical responses to biological ambiguity, legal responses to cases brought by transsexuals, the historical role of the eunuch in Byzantium, the social transformation of gender in Northern Albania and in the Southern Philippines, to North American 'drag' shows, English pantomime and Japanese kabuki theatre, this volume offers revealing insights into the ambiguities and limitations of gender transformation. Alison Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Department of Public Health. Her research interests include medical anthropology, ethnicity, kinship and social aspects of genetics. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani families in Britain (Harwood/Routledge 2000); A Pakistani Community in Britain (Oxford: Blackwell 1888) and Get by in Hindi and Urdu (1989 BBC Books).

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Changing Sex and Bending Gender
• Author: Alison Shaw, Shirley Ardener
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9781845450991
• ISBN: 184545099X
• ID: 05097692
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2005

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